Political Unrest: Businesses looking for united role
Dhaka, May 2 (UNB) - The country’s business leaders are reportedly planning to launch a common platform to play a role in tackling the evolving political problems and keeping the country’s economy unhurt.
“To the best of my knowledge, the top business leaders are planning to launch a forum…they’re probably thinking of playing a united role against the disturbing political situation,” a leader of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) told UNB preferring anonymity.
Replying to a question, the business leader said, “I can’t tell you in detail…only our President (AK Azad) and former FBCCI presidents are involved in the process.”
Incumbent FBCCI president AK Azad, former presidents Mahbubur Rahman, Salman F Rahman, Mir Nasir Hossain, Annisul Huq and former administrator Syed Manzur Elahi reportedly sat at a meeting at Westin Hotel in Gulshan this evening to discuss the matter.
In the last couple of weeks, the BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced shutdown in two spells protesting the disappearance of BNP organising secretary M Ilias Ali raising the eyebrows of the business leaders as the hartal hit the businesses hard.
The business leaders have long been calling for alternatives to hartal and nondestructive means to express discontent to help keep the wheel of the economy moving and relieve the nation of undue sufferings.
On April 24, business leaders at a press conference urged the political parties to refrain from calling hartal and look for alternative.
On the day, country’s apex trade body president AK Azad also urged all the political parties to rid the nation of hartal and its subsequent sufferings.
The businesses claimed that the entire business operation comes to a standstill when there is a shutdown.
“To the best of my knowledge, the top business leaders are planning to launch a forum…they’re probably thinking of playing a united role against the disturbing political situation,” a leader of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) told UNB preferring anonymity.
Replying to a question, the business leader said, “I can’t tell you in detail…only our President (AK Azad) and former FBCCI presidents are involved in the process.”
Incumbent FBCCI president AK Azad, former presidents Mahbubur Rahman, Salman F Rahman, Mir Nasir Hossain, Annisul Huq and former administrator Syed Manzur Elahi reportedly sat at a meeting at Westin Hotel in Gulshan this evening to discuss the matter.
In the last couple of weeks, the BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced shutdown in two spells protesting the disappearance of BNP organising secretary M Ilias Ali raising the eyebrows of the business leaders as the hartal hit the businesses hard.
The business leaders have long been calling for alternatives to hartal and nondestructive means to express discontent to help keep the wheel of the economy moving and relieve the nation of undue sufferings.
On April 24, business leaders at a press conference urged the political parties to refrain from calling hartal and look for alternative.
On the day, country’s apex trade body president AK Azad also urged all the political parties to rid the nation of hartal and its subsequent sufferings.
The businesses claimed that the entire business operation comes to a standstill when there is a shutdown.
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